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   lafos1@gmail.com to Tom Lake   
   Re: Making CP/M Plus Physical Diskettes?   
   08 Mar 19 04:37:55   
   
   On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 8:47:35 PM UTC-6, Tom Lake wrote:   
   > Has anyone successfully made actual diskettes from the DMK or DSK images of   
   Model 4 CP/M Plus?  I can create TRSDOS 2.3, 1.3, 2.7 and 2.8 as well as   
   NEWDOS, LS-DOS and other OS floppies that work on a real TRS-80 but I can't   
   make CP/M Plus diskettes    
   that will boot. I've tried creating them in an emulator that can use a real   
   floppy drive and I've also tried SuperCard Pro which has never failed me   
   before. My floppy controller is capable of single density and all other   
   compatibility tests.    
   >    
   > If you've been able to do it, please let us know HOW!!! Thanks.   
   >    
   > Tom L   
      
   I did it several years ago and had to think it through again.  You can make   
   copies using David Keil's emulator.  He included two sets of floppy disk   
   definitions to access the physical hardware.  The ones normally used are   
   optimized for typical Tandy disk    
   structures and begin with an "F".  The ones you want begin with a "v", and   
   will handle nonstandard formats, but are a bit slower.  I just made a copy if   
   disk 1 on a system with 360K floppy disk running Win98 on an Asus mobo.   
      
   Larry   
      
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